Jerry Kidd

Video Marketing for real estate agents – Part 1 of a series

Videos are effective in getting customers to purchase products and services online. They have been so successful that retail giants have used them to increase sales and conversions on their websites. Major British retailer, Marks and Spencer, features videos on their product pages. A shopper that visits the page of their latest blue cardigan will…

Jerry Kidd

What’s on your phone? Spring Cleaning for your Smart Phone! – 2019 Edition

It’s that time of year again!  I wrote this last year and felt like it was information that would be useful again! After careful review I don’t see anything that I would change! When was the last time you took a good look at the apps on your smart phone? If your phone is anything…

Brilliant CMA tool makes awesome CMAs

How is this for a headline on a real estate tools website?  YOU ARE A MODERN REAL ESTATE AGENT. YOUR TOOLS SHOULD BE TOO dashCMA equips you with a modern pricing #perspective that your competition isn’t showing. Win more listings, win more accepted offers but more importantly, win your client’s trust. I don’t know if…

Jerry Kidd

Turn your car into a university on wheels!

Have you ever heard the expression “windshield time”? The Urban Dictionary defines windshield time as the amount of time wasted or lost driving from point A to point B during work hours. If you are like many real estate agents you have a lot of time spent in your car going from place to place…

Jerry Kidd

3 ways to find anyone’s email address!

Have you ever wondered how to find someone’s email address?  I know that I have been asked that question many times, so I went on a hunt to find ways to do just that! Here are three ways to find those addresses.  One is free, but the others have some cost associated with them.  If…

Jerry Kidd

Is direct mail dead? I don’t think so!

What’s in your mailbox these days?  In my neighborhood, I get two or three oversized postcards from local real estate agents every week.  Since they turn up so often and from more than one agent I figured that they had to be producing results…or else why would they continue to send them? But, I wanted…

Jerry Kidd

4 Great ways to keep those New Years Resolutions and achieve your 2019 goals!

OK, the parties are over and we are all back to work with a fresh shiny set of new resolutions and goals!  But, for many of us those goals and resolutions are going to fall by the wayside as victims of crammed schedules, demanding clients, family situations and more. Wouldn’t it be great if there…

Easy way to plan your year

As we near the end of 2018, I like to look back and see if I accomplished everything that I set out to do this year. I like to look at personal accomplishments, relationship accomplishments and business accomplishments. Given that there are only 365 days in a year, it’s way too easy to see the…

Package Delivery Apps to Make Your Life Easier

It’s that time of year when many of us are doing our holiday shopping online.  The sheer number of packages being delivered is astonishing!  It’s amazing to me that anything actually gets where it is supposed to go! Packages arrive at my house form a variety of different shippers and are delivered by any number…

How to Participate to Make Valuable Connections

It was mentioned last week that you need to participate in the Facebook groups you belong to in order to make valuable connections. This is obvious, of course, but you’d be amazed at how many people join groups and then do nothing. They rarely post or comment. Or worse yet – they lurk in the…